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Beijing, 2000. Zhu runs a newspaper stand with his third daughter on Chang’An Avenue. His second daughter buys clothing wholesale and sells them retail. His eldest daughter helps her husband’s family manage a private shop on Tiananmen Square. Zhu’s wife works as a maid. Their only son goes to high school. One family, several trades, slender income. Everyone lives in the same room. They used to be peasants and came here to Beijing 10 years earlier. Today they dream of their son working in computer electronics. At the New Year, they send their second daughter back to her native village to find a trustworthy fiancé. The girl doesn’t like the suitor but is happy to see her village again: houses old and new, fields cultivated or barren. The Zhu family’s house overlooks a pond but it has been walled up for the past eight years. The second daughter burns incense at the tomb of her ancestors, while a neighbor demolishes his old house.

China - 2000 - 53 mn - DV Cam - Colour

Réalisation Zhang Xianmin Image Zhang Xianmin Son Xin Xia Montage Zhang Xianmin

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